Students will love this program that teaches the fundamentals of stop motion animation in a fun and exciting way! After reviewing samples of stop motion music videos, students will become rock stars that come to life in their own music video!
ASC Goals: Teacher Professional Development, Middle School Transition, High School Graduation Rate, Pre-K Readiness

Students will bring objects and photographs to life using the art of animation in this awesome hands-on program! From storyboarding to designing props and taking pictures to acting, this program has something for everyone! Students will be divided work collaboratively in groups to create one or multiple short animations.

“The Circus King” (Reading & Language Arts)
A young boy is lost at sea and found by a baboon on a far away island. He is raised by a circus of misfits. The audience and cast of characters help the boy overcome personal challenges and discover his destiny. With a little magic, characters come right out of the screen as puppets! There is Ella the elephant with bad allergies. There’s a lazy lion with curlers in his hair and crossed eyed acrobats swinging through the air.
The show combines hilarious puppets, beautiful animation, spellbinding magic, wonderful music with tremendous audience interaction. The set has big screen animation, lots of magical props and musical instruments.
There is a digital companion book that the teachers can download and read to the students before the show. The students test out on grammar, reading comprehension and spelling.
For ages: Pre-K – 5th Grade
Duration: 50 Minutes (Shorter versions of the show are available.)
Setup: 30 minutes to 1 and 1/2 hours depending upon site.
Tech Requirements: Two Chairs, One Table 6’X2′ and one Electrical Outlet (We bring the rest!)

“The Wand Of Dreams”
(A Mathematical Fairy Tale)
The land of “Happily Ever After” is in big trouble. The Wand Of Dreams has been stolen and everything is falling apart! Fairy Godmother or Godfather and the audience have to round up the usual suspects to solve the mystery. Each suspect offers an interesting mathematical problem to solve as the mystery unfolds. You’ll meet a Magic Mirror with a messy cold, a Dirty Rat with some pretty shady friends, a Troll that has traffic backed up for hours, a narcoleptic Sheriff that can’t stay awake long enough to figure anything out, Five Little Piggies with some really big problems, and a Dragon that loves bacon! The show combines hilarious puppets, beautiful animation, spellbinding magic, wonderful music with tremendous audience interaction. The set has big screen animation, lots of magical props and musical instruments. This is our best show yet!
Duration: 50 Minute Show
For Ages: Pre-K – 5th Grade
Setup: 30 minutes to 1 and 1/2 hours depending upon the performance space.
Tech Requirements: One Chair, One Table 6’X2′ and one Electrical Outlet (We bring the rest!)

The first in the series of "The Wonderful World of Pollinators". Learn the story of the Honey Bee! Students will explore detailed workings of a Honey Bee hive. While seeing vivid, up close pictures from an actual bee hive, student learn the specific and fascinating duties of each resident of the hive. This one hour presentation will engage student with hands on Show & Tell props, such as real honey comb from a hive, all parts of a honey bee hive, such as frames the bees live on, a Smoker and a Bee Suit. It also includes honey tasting. (only for groups under 50)

The second program in the series of "The Wonderful World of Pollinators”
In a one hour presentation students learn information about the vast world of Native Bees, Butterflies and Pollinators. There are many, many pollinators that will make that tomato, that cucumber or watermelon. How do they do it? Vivid pictures of each pollinator will show students the different types of pollinators that can be seen in the garden! The students will learn:
How to identify a pollinator.
How and where these pollinators live and nest.
How pollination happen on different plants.
How-to-Instructions on how to build your own “Pollinator Hotel” to draw those beneficial pollinators to your garden.

The third in the series of "The Wonderful World of Pollinators" Pollinators, Plants & People
Students will learn what plants can be grown and what pollinator that plant will bring to the garden. This one hour presentation will inspire students to plant for our pollinators and learn what flowers the bees and pollinators love.
This program includes instructions on how to create a small pollinator garden that can be made in your own yard through direct planting or making seed bombs. It will enabling the student to go out to enjoy bees and butterflies doing the work of pollination in their own yard. Includes seeds and easy instruction on how to make a seed bomb.

This live animal science program educates students on the importance of tropical rain forests. Students will see LIVE rain forest animals including a constrictor snake, iguana and a Red-footed tortoise from South America with a selected animal for touching. Students will also touch a variety of rain forest artifacts including a confiscated Asian Leopard pelt and hippopotamus tusk. Rain forests have been called the “lungs of the Earth.” Students will gain knowledge of the four layers of the rain forest and representative plant and animal species that reside there. This fun and educational science program has interactive educational displays, live animals, hands-on artifacts and a Power Point presentation.

This live animal science program educates students on the wonderful world of snakes. Students will see LIVE snakes from Africa, Central America and North America plus there will be a snake for touching too. Students will also see and touch a variety of hand-on artifacts including a snake skeleton, snake eggs, a preserved venomous Copperhead and a 10 ft. African Rock Python skin. This fun and educational museum-based science program includes a Power Point presentation, hands-on artifacts, interactive educational displays and live animal demonstrations.